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The Green and the Red: Sean O'Casey . . . the Man and His Plays

Book by Jules Koslow; Arts, Inc., 1950

Subjects:

O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964--Biography, O'Casey, Sean--1880-1964--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...people to see." Some writers would have gone...brought success. OCasey did neither. In...the problem that writers such as Toller and OCasey were willing to...described by many writers--the importance...probably reflects OCaseys view of the English...
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Selected Plays of Sean O'Casey

Book by Sean O'Casey; G. Braziller, 1954

Subjects:

Fiction

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...work, we can be sure that he has not withheld himself. August 12, 1954 A WORD FROM OCASEY On Playwriting LOTS OF PEOPLE YEARN to be writers; why, I dont know, for all other talents are as important, and have artistry in themselves...
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Modern Irish Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook

Book by Alexander G. Gonzalez; Greenwood Press, 1997

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Biography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Bio-Bibliography--Dictionaries, English Literature--Irish Authors--Dictionaries, Fiction, Ireland--Biography--Dictionaries, Ireland--Intellectual Life--Dictionaries

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening ...
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This reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 modern Irish writers. Each entry includes a brief biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the writer's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary sources. An opening essay surveys the critical response to Irish literature after 1885, and an extensive bibliography concludes the volume.
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The Dragon Has Two Tongues: Essays on Anglo-Welsh Writers and Writing

Book by Glyn Jones, Tony Brown; University of Wales Press, 2001

Subjects:

English Literature--20th Century--History And Criticism, English Literature--Welsh Authors--History And Criticism, Wales--In Literature, Wales--Intellectual Life--20th Century

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...TWO TONGUES Essays on Anglo-Welsh Writers and Writing by Glyn Jones Revised...stories and novels 46 V Three prose writers: Caradoc Evans, Jack Jones, Gwyn Thomas...it should deal with a certain group of writers of our country and with certain events...
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Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World

Book by Rhoda B. Nathan; Greenwood Press, 1986

Subjects:

American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism--Congresses, American Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Congresses, English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism--Congresses, English Literature--Women Authors--History And Criticism--Congresses, Women In Literature--Congresses

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World Recent...Donnelly Gender and Destiny: Women Writers and the Holocaust Marlene E. Heinemann Nineteenth-Century Women Writers of the English-Speaking World Edited...

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Hearts of Stone: Quarrying the Canadian Shield in Recent Canadian Women's Writing

Journal article by Nora Foster Stovel; International Fiction Review, Vol. 33, 2006

Subjects:

Canadian literature--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...give us hearts o flesh! Sean OCasey, Juno and the Paycock Recent Canadian women writers quarry the human heart, but...which these three prairie writers employ this trope to quarry...Juno Boyle prays in Sean OCaseys 1922 play Juno and the Paycock...
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Making Culture Bloom

Journal article by Iain McCalman; Cultural Studies Review, Vol. 11, 2005

Subjects:

Culture, Festivals, Ireland, Joyce, James (1882-1941), Novels, Social impact, Writers

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Irelands most distinguished creative artists, writers and musicians. Here, like his fellow academicians...Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, John Synge, Sean OCasey and Samuel Beckett; poets like William...and originality. During the 1940s Dublin writers began quite spontaneously making pilgrimages...
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Annual Bibliography of Studies in Australian Literature: 2002

Journal article by Carol Hetherington, Irmtraud Petersson; Australian Literary Studies, Vol. 21, 2003

Subjects:

Australian literature--Bibliography, Criticism--Bibliography

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...the ALS Guide to Australian Writers. DALPUGET, BLANCHE. La Breche...Heroism: The Theatre Languages of OCasey, Friel and Davis. Irish-Australian...the ALS Guide to Australian Writers. FOGARTY, LIONEL De Paor...the ALS Guide to Australian Writers. LOHREY, AMANDA. See McLaren...
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Desperate but Not Serious: the Situation of Hungarian Literature in the Nineties

Journal article by Robert Murray Davis; World Literature Today, Vol. 74, 2000

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...on 135 adaptations of classic drama from Aeschylus to Sean OCasey, many put into Hungarian for the first time. Now, he says...state of marketing." Marketing is an area not really open to writers, who have little control over the process. In the past, writers...
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Telling the Truth: Alice Childress as Theorist and Playwright

Journal article by Olga Dugan; The Journal of African American History, 2002

Subjects:

African American women--Criticism, interpretation, etc., American drama--Evaluation, American drama--History, American drama--Social aspects, Authors, American--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Childress, Alice--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...possibilities." She also admired Sean OCasey and Sholem Aleichem, who "celebrated...Condition": 10). Each of these writers had what Childress called...affiliated herself with the Harlem Writers Guild and the New Dramatists...only a few "plays by black writers" get "presented on Broadway...

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Remembering Ring(*)

Magazine article by Roger Kahn; The Nation, Vol. 271, December 4, 2000

Subjects:

Authors--Biography, Lardner, Ring Jr.--Biography, Writers--Biography

Collections: Entire Library

...sentence. It ran against Rings nature to raise his voice. Lesser writers, who shouted, drew more acclaim, or anyway more attention...contempt of Congress, drew a transatlantic fan letter from Sean OCasey. Ring felt sufficiently pleased to have the longhand note framed...
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Twentieth-Century Witness

Magazine article by Conor Cruise O'Brien; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 273, January 1994

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Personal narratives, Ireland--History, Irish writers--Personal narratives, Nationalism--Ireland

Collections: Entire Library

...into a riot on the fourth night of Sean OCaseys The Plough and the Stars in the Abbey...dinner. Gabriel Fallon, a close friend of OCaseys, suggested that Yeats hoped the play would...Abbey at the center of the excitement. OCasey, on the other hand (a little like Salman...
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Wilde, Synge & Orpen

Magazine article by Richard Tillinghast; New Criterion, Vol. 24, February 2006

Subjects:

Authors, Irish--Criticism and interpretation, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, Irish painting--Criticism and interpretation, Irish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Orpen, William--Criticism and interpretation, Painting, Irish--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Synge, J.M.--Criticism and interpretation, Wilde, Oscar--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Entire Library

Wilde, Synge Orpen. by Richard Tillinghast Old Dublin is hard to locate these days--that city Joyce, Sean OCasey, Flann OBrien, and Patrick Kavanagh wrote about, with its tobacco-brown pubs, drizzle, and the sound of the Angelus on the...
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Nobel Tics

Magazine article by Grace Marmor Spruch; American Scholar, Vol. 69, Autumn 2000

Subjects:

Authors--Achievements and awards, Nobel prizes--History, Scientists--Achievements and awards, Writers--Achievements and awards

Collections: Entire Library

...struck by who did not win the prize than by who did. Mark Twain, George Meredith, Henry James, Strindberg, Brecht, Gorky, Valery, OCasey, Hardy, Rilke, Joyce--all were passed over. I realize that a great deal of subjectivity enters into the deliberations over...
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Ireland's Own

Magazine article; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 18, Summer 1994

Subjects:

Ireland--Popular culture, Social evolution--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

Irelands own James Joyce, Sean OCasey, Samuel Beckett, and a host of others made exile seem the normal condition for influential Irish writers and artists. In recent years, however, many of their successors - including novelist Roddy Doyle...

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THE IRISH DEAD POETS SOCIETY; New Guide Book to Graves of Top Writers

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett and OCasey share the pages with lesser-known writers, such as Amanda McKittrick...Guide To The Graves of Irish Writers is published by Irish Graves...priced E20. Playwright Sean OCasey; WB Yeats, above, and his grave...
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THE IRISH DEAD POETS SOCIETY; New Guide Book to Graves of Top Writers

Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 16, 2005

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...figures. Yeats, Wilde, Shaw, Joyce, Beckett and OCasey share the pages with lesser-known writers, such as Amanda McKittrick Ross. Batesons guidebook...precise directions to the graves of more than 400 writers. Bateson, who was born in Belfast and now works...
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Name the Quays for 'Our Irish Writers'

Newspaper article; The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland), May 15, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Quay or Behan Quay in honour of Irish writers. He said: "Since Elizabethan England there...Beckett and Shaw were born in Dublin. Joyce, OCasey, Swift, Wilde, Behan and many others right...also said that the works of the Irish writers should be prominently displayed along...
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Shipping Lines to Lure Passengers

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 17, 2007

Subjects:

Advertising campaigns

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...travelling at sea. Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, Sean OCasey, GB Shaw, Oscar Wildeand WB Yeats - who all, at some stage...irreverence, vision and insight which has endearedthese Irish writers not only to the Irish but to the world at large. Our aim is...
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Behan, Our Literary George Best; Brendan Behan: One Writer Who Would Never Tone Down for the Censors

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 13, 2008

Subjects:

Censorship

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...intellectual torpor imposed upon this state. Irelands stifling intellectual climate 50 years ago meant that many writers like Beckett and OCasey followed Joyce into exile, but other people stayed and fought against censorship. Few did so with more courage...

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Irish Literary Renaissance

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of the 20th cent. in the dramas of J. M. Synge and Sean OCasey and some of the greatest poetry in the works of W. B. Yeats...the establishment of the Abbey Theatre . Other important writers of the revival were Lady Gregory , G. W. Russell (pseud...
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English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...William Butler Yeats , and Sean OCasey all wrote on Irish themes mythical in Yeatss poetic drama, political in OCaseys realistic plays. Also Irish, George...were not English; Shaw, Yeats, Joyce, OCasey, and Beckett were Irish, Dylan Thomas...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...John Millington Synge and Sean OCasey (Irish), and Eugene ONeill , Clifford...revival of drama in verse, but although such writers as William Butler Yeats , W. H. Auden...1967) explored black American life; writers including Ed Bullins (e.g., The Taking...
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Comedy

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...drama of Moliere , one of the greatest comic and satiric writers in the history of the theater. This combination is also present...native Irish comedy of J. M. Synge , Lady Gregory , Sean OCasey , Brendan Behan , and Brian Friel. Also important are the...

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